Movement Alive
Components that are needed in an aquatic system.
What is biotic and abiotic components?
The zone where no sunlight reaches.
What is benthic?
Percentage of fresh water on Earth.
What is 2.5%?
Percentage of saltwater on Earth.
What is 97.5%?
What is wind?
Fast moving freshwater.
What is lotic?
The biggest producer of oxygen on Earth and the cornerstone to aquatic food webs. Also eats ammonium.
What is phytoplankton?
The kind of water produced in precipitation, transpiration and groundwater.
What is freshwater?
Major different in marine and freshwater ecosystems. Daily double if you can say %.
The amount of salinity.
Marine has more >. 1%
Fresh <1%
The reason saltwater and freshwater have different types of organisms.
What is unique environments have unique adapted organisms.
What is lentic?
The reason sunlight is needed in aquatic ecosystems.
What is light is needed for photosynthesis?
Body of rock or sediment that stores groundwater and allows it to move.
What is an aquifer?
A unique transition zone with brackish water creating biodiversity at the mouth of rivers.
What is an estuary?
System that includes fresh and saltwater environments.
What is aquatic system?
Water movement impact marine life by doing this.
What is distribute nutrients?
The reason photosynthetic algae are close to the surface of bodies of water.
What is they need sunlight?
The 3 names of freshwater movement.
What is lotic, lentic and wetlands?
Another name for saltwater.
What is marine?
Most abundant wetland in North America.
What is a non-tidal marsh?
Soil, water, sand, temperature, waves and sunlight.
What are abiotic elements of aquatic systems?
Zone off the shore which lights reaches the bottom of freshwater systems.
What is littoral?
Periodically flooded wetland dominated by emerging vegetation and primarily influenced by surface water.
What is a marsh?
The reason salt lakes form.
What is evaporation leaves salt from broken down minerals, then the lake forms?
Salt tolerant tree that grows in areas where ocean meets land with an adaptation of roots above soil.
What is a mangrove tree?